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Subject: Re: Default rep specs for record types - documented??
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"Anonymous Coward" <bogus_addy@bogus_domain.net> wrote in message 
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> In article <slrndmn0ub.v5k.lauri@dev.diter.com>, Lauri Ora wrote:
>>
>> Some versions of GNAT also has option -gnatR1 (List rep info), which
>> gives you similar output:
>
> That is a very useful option.  I wish I had known about it sooner.  Is
> there a similar switch for C code?  It would make interface coding so
> much easier if I could generate this output for C types before
> constructing the corrosponding ADA interface.

Unfortunately, I know of no C/C++ compiler that generates struct / class 
layout information. Moreover, there is still no C/C++ equivalent of the 
representation clause.

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